After a long legal-battle-induced delay, Project Runway (tonight, 8 ET/PT) makes its Lifetime debut with a special two-hour "all-star challenge" followed by the launch of its new season. You'll have to judge for yourself whether the show merits all the fuss it provoked, particularly now that its stars have joined the ranks of the grievously overexposed. Detergent commercials? Really?

Linda Lavin makes a welcome return as Nana, which is good news for fans of Fox's The O.C. (Thursday, 8 ET/PT). This time, instead of Nana visiting Sandy, Sandy's taking Seth and Ryan to visit her in Miami and to catch a performance by rapper T.I. They should let Lavin sing. She's the one who has done Broadway.

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The 11 contestants left on Fox's reality hit American Idol are getting another shot at stardom. Phone numbers that allowed viewers to pick their favorite contestant were incorrectly displayed during Tuesday's show, prompting a re-vote during the show airing Wednesday, the network said.

Television series feature largely white casts even when the setting is an ethnically diverse city such as Los Angeles or New York, according to a study released Tuesday. An analysis of shows on the six major networks found a drop in Hispanic and other minority lead characters, according to the Chicano Studies Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The latest performer to make the move from the popular television talent competition to Broadway is Tamyra Gray, who will join the cast of Broadway's Bollywood musical on Nov. 9 for 12 weeks. (Frenchie Davis, an American Idol alum, joined the cast of Rent.)